One person: Starting with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his grandmaster uncle emerges from seclusion.

"The third one!"

The old master could no longer hold back.

He stepped forward and grabbed Tian Jinzhong's hand, feeling the warmth emanating from that palm.

"Senior brother...I...I'm whole again..."

Tian Jinzhong looked up at the old Celestial Master, tears streaming down his face like a burst dam.

He suddenly stood up from his wheelchair!

Although his legs were still a little weak from not walking for decades, he truly stood up on his own!

"Hahaha! Good! Great!"

The old master hugged Tian Jinzhong tightly, overwhelmed with emotion, his voice filled with comfort:

"He's standing up! He's finally standing up! Third brother, you've suffered so much!"

Zhang Tianyi stood aside, watching his two fellow disciples embracing tightly, and a slight moisture welled up in his eyes.

But he quickly sniffed, suppressing the bittersweet feeling.

He grinned, revealing a broad and unrestrained smile.

"Alright, alright, how old are you? Hugging each other and crying like this, aren't you ashamed?"

Zhang Tianyi stepped forward and, without any hesitation, punched the old master and Tian Jinzhong on the shoulder each:

"It's great that your hands and feet have grown back! We have to have extra dishes tonight! The three of us brothers, we won't leave until we're drunk!"

Tian Jinzhong wiped away his tears, looked at Zhang Tianyi, and suddenly bent his knees, about to kneel down.

"Third brother, what are you doing!"

Zhang Tianyi reacted quickly and caught him, saying, "Don't break your newly grown legs from kneeling!"

"Second Senior Brother... I can't thank you enough! Without you, my life would be..."

"Don't give me that! We're family, no need for formalities!" Zhang Tianyi interrupted him, laughing and scolding.

After calming down his two senior brothers, Zhang Tianyi turned his head away.

Their gaze fell on Qu Tong, who was leaning against the wall, quietly adjusting her breathing.

Zhang Tianyi put on a bright smile and walked over.

He gave a thumbs-up and praised without reservation:

"Xiaotong! Well done!"

"Your skills are absolutely amazing! You're a hundred times better than those renowned traditional Chinese medicine doctors out there!"

Hearing Zhang Tianyi address her as "Xiao Tong" so familiarly, Qu Tong felt not joy, but rather a strong sense of unease.

"You flatter me, Master Tian... Now that Elder Tian's injuries have been healed, then this junior..."

Qu Tong forced a smile and tentatively asked, "May I... leave now? There are still many matters to attend to at the Yaoxing Society..."

"Hey? Let's go? Where to?"

Zhang Tianyi pulled over the chair he had just used, sat down in front of Qu Tong, and crossed his legs.

He looked at Qu Tong with the eyes of someone gazing at a priceless treasure, his tone full of tenderness:

"Xiaotong, look at you, what a kind girl you are."

"Your medical skills are so superb; you can bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded with a mere wave of your hand. How dangerous would it be if you were out there!"

"The world of supernatural beings is very complex; you can't handle it!"

"If those old monsters knew you could do this, wouldn't they tear you apart alive?"

Zhang Tianyi slapped her thigh and made an incredibly magnanimous decision:

"After much thought, I feel that I cannot let someone as talented as you suffer injustice while wandering outside."

"How about this!"

Zhang Tianyi pointed to the spacious basement, then pointed to the upstairs:

"Why don't you stay and become my personal doctor?"

"Consider this a reward for your great contribution today!"

"Don't worry! The benefits are absolutely excellent! Five social insurances and one housing fund, plus meals and accommodation! When you get old, I'll even find you a propitious burial site on the back of Longhu Mountain, guaranteeing you a peaceful and comfortable old age!"

"How about it? Have I treated you well enough, Daoist Master?"

boom!

Qu Tong felt a loud bang in her brain.

The color drained from her face instantly.

What private doctor?!

What do you mean by "enjoying a peaceful old age"?!

Isn't that just life imprisonment?!

He wants to treat me like a human blood bag, keeping me under his watchful eye forever.

"Really...real person! You must be joking!"

Qu Tong panicked completely, cold sweat sliding down her delicate cheeks.

She could no longer maintain her composure and spoke hastily, revealing her trump card:

"I can't stay! Yaoxing Society can't do without me! I can give you money! All of Yaoxing Society's funds can be transferred to the Heavenly Master's Mansion!"

"And intelligence! I control the largest intelligence network in the world of supernatural beings, and I can put it to your use!"

"Even... I can find a way to pass these hands on to someone of yours!"

"Please... spare me!"

Qu Tong's voice was full of pleading.

She knew that once she was placed under house arrest by this man, all her ambitions for the rest of her life would be over.

however.

Faced with the conditions that Qu Tong had put forward, conditions that were enough to drive any force crazy.

Zhang Tianyi simply sat there quietly, the smile on his face gradually fading away.

He took out an apple that he had somehow gotten his hands on and wiped it casually on his clothes.

I took a bite with a "crunch".

"Xiao Tong."

Zhang Tianyi chewed on an apple while looking at Qu Tong, who was in despair, with a completely indifferent gaze.

"What you just mentioned is quite tempting."

"But unfortunately..."

"I, Daoist Master, lack nothing!!"

"..."

"I lack nothing..."

Qu Tong stared blankly at the young Taoist priest sitting opposite her, legs crossed, chewing an apple.

Her usually brilliant mind was now experiencing an unprecedented freeze.

He didn't care about money.

With his backing from Longhu Mountain, he himself was a top-tier fighter, and he had no need for a mundane organization like the Yaoxing Society.

As for beauty... well, it's definitely useless!

She discovered in despair that all the assets she was so proud of were worthless in front of this man.

"Do I really want to spend my whole life as his private doctor in this dark, sunless basement?"

Qu Tong's heart sank to the bottom.

Just as Zhang Tianyi finished slowly eating the apple and was about to reach for a tissue to wipe her hands...

Qu Tong took a deep breath, her chest heaving violently.

Her mind raced, and her gaze suddenly shifted to Tian Jinzhong, who was being helped by the old master and trying to adapt to his new legs.

"A real person."

Qu Tong's voice no longer trembled; instead, it became unusually calm and resolute.

“You truly lack nothing.”

"But Senior Tian... is missing."

Zhang Tianyi paused slightly in the hand holding the tissue.

The old celestial master also stopped what he was doing and looked over with a furrowed brow.

Qu Tong looked directly into Zhang Tianyi's eyes and revealed her final trump card:

"The red hands of a master of dual-wielding can indeed regenerate severed limbs and reconstruct flesh and blood."

"But this is merely a repair."

Qu Tong's gaze fell on Tian Jinzhong's aged face:

"Back then, Elder Tian's meridians were completely severed, and his vital energy was greatly depleted. In the past few decades, he has already exhausted all his life force in order to survive."

"His body is now nearing its end!"

Silence fell over the basement.

Qu Tong bit her red lips and pronounced this cruel truth:

"Given Elder Tian's current vitality, even with the Celestial Master's Mansion's spiritual medicine keeping him alive..."

"At most, he has a year left to live."